Perspective

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Kiss kiss

The Daily Telegraph reports:

A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.

Kinda puts Chinese Internet censorship into perspective.

It also draws attention to the hypocrisy of the Mia Farrow and Richard Gere crowd. Whereas Farrow and her ilk do have a chance to influence American foreign policy, their influence on Chinese policy, domestic or international, is minimal.

It’s not easy to put your money where your mouth is.

Notes:

1. Thanks to Billsdue for the link.

2. This murder was the work of an individual Saudi citizen, not the state. But in this case, the individual citizen’s action was not much different from how the Saudi state sometimes behaves, particularly with regard to women.

Update: As reader John Cruz points out, in the case of the photo above, it seems that W. has indeed put his mouth where his money is, if not the other way round.

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